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Full Professor.
Computing Systems and Industrial Engineering Department
School of Engineering
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Bogotá D.C., Colombia
Office: 100 Building 453 (Engineering Classrooms)
Phone: +57 1 316 5000 ext. 14070/14011
e-mail: jmsanchezt@unal.edu.co
Biography
She holds a PhD in Economics and Management of Innovation and Technological Policy from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2006). She also has a Master in Science and Technology Analysis and Management from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2001) and a Master in Systems Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Colombia (1998). She also obtained a Diploma in Advanced Studies in Applied Economics from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2002). She is a Systems Engineer from Universidad Nacional de Colombia (1993).
She has served as Director, consultant, advisor, manager and researcher in projects on Science, Technology and Innovation Management, Foresight and Competitive Intelligence, and Information systems design for Colombian entities such as Consejo Superior de la Judicatura – Colombian judicial branch, Secretaria de Hacienda Distrital (Bogotá), National Notary Corporation, Government of Cundinamarca, Chamber Commerce of Bogotá, Chamber Commerce of Neiva, National Foresight Program of Colciencias, Maloka, EPM, ISA Electric Company, Higher Education Institutions, Vice-rectorate of Research at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Internationally, she has consulted for the Ministry of Finance - General Directorate of Taxes of Romania, TRIZ XXI in Spain, IPAE in Peru, CONACYT in El Salvador.
She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Colombian Observatory of Science and Technology OCyT (2008-2012) and of the Latin-Iberoamerican Association of Science, Technology and Innovation Management - ALTEC (2018-2023).
Author of several books, articles, and papers published nationally and internationally. Speaker at various national and international events. Peer reviewer for several conferences and journals nationally and internationally.
She has taught at Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Universidad del Meta, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Universidad de Antioquia, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, and Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Abroad, she has taught at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Universidad Espiritu Santo.
In 2007, she joined Universidad Nacional de Colombia where she has been and advisor to the Vice-rectorate for Research -VRI- (2008-2012), Coordinator of the Master's program in Industrial Engineering (2013-2), Coordinator of the Master's program in Computing and Systems Engineering (2012-2 a 2016-2), member of the management team of the Specialization in Electronic Government and Coordinator of the same (2014-2016-1) (2018-I - today), Director of the Curricular area of Industrial and Computing Systems Engineering (jun, 2018 - feb, 2022), representative of the Rector's Office in the National Digital Strategy Committee (2021- May, 2024), Director of the Labs & Research National Office at the VRI (mar, 2022, - apr, 2024).
Currently, she is the Curricular Coordinator of the Electronic Government Specialization program and a Full-Professor at the Computing Systems and Industrial Engineering Department at Engineering School at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She is also a senior researcher in MinCiencias and a researcher at the Research Group in Management and Organizations – GRIEGO, categorized A1 by MinCiencias.
Areas of Interest
Design and Evaluation of Public Policies related to the ICT sector - Information Society
Designing indicators and tools to measure different areas of the Information Society like e-health, e-government, e-learning, and etc.
Design and Evaluation of Public Policies in Science, Technology and Innovation
Designing indicators and tools to measure STI
Science, Technology and Innovation Management and Governance
Developing Software Tools specialised in Technology Watch and Competitive Intelligence for Enterprises
Jenny Marcela Sánchez-Torres, PhD
Profesora Titular | Full time Professor
Depto. Ingeniería de Sistemas e Industrial | Computing Systems and Industrial Engineering Dept.
Universidad Nacional de Colombia | National University of Colombia
A: Of 100 Edif 453, Ciudad Universitaria, Bogotá, Colombia
T: 571- 3165000 ext 14070-14011 F: 571- 3165341
E: jmsanchezt@unal.edu.co W: https://sites.google.com/unal.edu.co/jmsanchezt/
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